Any gif to tga tutorials ?

[darthsLair]

Hi,

I am in need of a good tga tutorial, as I have some paintings I need in tga format. I added the dromed patch which is supposed to force dromed to take .tga 's and it works for some objects like light shafts, but not ai's like the cosas nobles. I understand the .tga's need alpha channels, and I would like to learn how to make them.

I searched for .tga in the search engine but nothing comes up. Only "no results"

[ChaozFlame]

What program are you using to make the pictures in?
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130939
You might be having AntiMatter_16's problem.

[ZylonBane]

I am in need of a good tga tutorial, as I have some paintings I need in tga format.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Targas." Now they have two problems.

If your bitmap doesn't require transparency, it's exceedingly unlikely that you need it to be in Targa format.

[LarryG]

Unless you want to learn more about tga files than I think you do, get TGATool2. Lots of places to download it. It will convert your PSP output file into a one that DromEd won't choke on. I always pass my tga files through it. Note: you won't see the image in DromEd's edit mode, but when you go into game mode it will be fine.

@ZB: if you are running out of palettes (for example you have lots of art that you want to be as true to the original as possible), tga is a good format for that situation since it doesn't use any.

[darthsLair]

Unless you want to learn more about tga files than I think you do, get TGATool2. Lots of places to download it. It will convert your PSP output file into a one that DromEd won't choke on. I always pass my tga files through it. Note: you won't see the image in DromEd's edit mode, but when you go into game mode it will be fine.

@ZB: if you are running out of palettes (for example you have lots of art that you want to be as true to the original as possible), tga is a good format for that situation since it doesn't use any.

Thanks for all the info ;ChaozFlame,ZB, and Larry G, Thanks for the TGATool2 and info, as I do use only Psp version 8. I learned some about gif skins yesterday, so today it is Tga's.

Right on Larry, I took a quick youtube course on transparency, and made a tga that looks great in t2.

Thanks a heap !

[ZylonBane]

@ZB: if you are running out of palettes (for example you have lots of art that you want to be as true to the original as possible), tga is a good format for that situation since it doesn't use any.

Targas are massive, and only offer 16-bit color resolution, vs the 24-bit color resolution of GIF/PCX. You should never run short on palettes if you're not being completely wasteful with them. Grouping together similarly-colored textures isn't that hard.